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Geological processes are consequences of the Earth’s thermal evolution. Plate tectonics, which explain geological phenomena along plate boundaries, elegantly illustrate this concept. For example, the origin of oceanic plates at ocean ridges, the movement and growth of these plates, and their ultimate consumption back into the Earth’s interior through subduction zones provide an efficient mechanism to cool the Earth’s mantle, leading to large-scale mantle convection. Mantle plumes, which explain another set of global geological phenomena, cool the Earth’s deep interior (probably the Earth’s core) and represent another mode of Earth’s thermal convection (e.g., Davies and Richards 1992). Plate tectonics and plume tectonics are thus genetically independent from each other, However, when the rising plumes approach the lithospheric plates, interactions between the two inevitably result. Such interactions are most prominent near ocean ridges, where the litho-sphere is thin and the effect of mantle plumes is best revealed. “Plume-ridge inter-action” has been a hot topic in recent years, and much effort has been expended in this area aimed at understanding the geological, geochemical, and geodynamic consequences (Schilling et al. 1983, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1999; Schilling 1991; Feighner and Richards 1995; Ho and Lin 1995a,b; Ito et al. 1996; Kincaid et al. 1995, 1996; Ribe 1996; Sleep 1996; Haase and Devey 1996; Hekinian et al. 1996, 1997, 1999; Pan and Batiza 1998; Niu et al. 1999; Graham et al. 1999; Maia et al. 2000; Georgen et al. 2001; Haase 2002).
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Niu, Y., Hekinian, R. (2004). Ridge Suction Drives Plume-Ridge Interactions. In: Hekinian, R., Cheminée, JL., Stoffers, P. (eds) Oceanic Hotspots. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-18782-7_10
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